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Well, there's a few things going on. Who knows if they knew that dolphin was injured. Even in the photos, it looks fine. And who knows if the cause of death is from lifting it. I mean, hello, the thing beached and got run over or something. And again, those guys are hot.

Any American tourists would've seen the thing and snapped photos too.

Having said that, there's definitely a lack of respect for animal welfare in some Chinese cultures.

An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud - when the creature started barking in front of visitors.

Chinese media reports said the zoo had replaced its genuine lion with a Tibetan mastiff dog.

A zoo official in Henan province said the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre.

Outraged visitors to the zoo in Louhe city said they had been cheated.

According to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily, the fraud came to light when a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made.

But when they got to the cage marked "African lion" - which had a sign describing the range and characteristics of the animal - they were shocked to hear the creature bark.

It was then that zoo keepers revealed the so-called lion was actually a Tibetan mastiff, an animal that can have a furry brown coat, making it look a little like a lion.

The woman visitor, surnamed Liu, was quoted as saying: "The zoo is absolutely trying to cheat us. They are trying to disguise dogs as lions."

The chief of the park's animal department, Liu Suya, was quoted by the Beijing Youth Daily as saying the lion had been taken to a breeding facility and the Tibetan mastiff temporarily placed in its cage because of safety concerns.

Other species were also apparently mislabelled; there was a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf.

When in China, I noticed the big thing seems to be owning a dog now. Everyone seems to have a beautiful healthy looking gorgeous dog. The most beautiful dogs I've ever seen. Poor people to wealthy people all seem to have a dog. Even my relatives got their own stray dog. It seems people give them away when their dogs have babies. I wanted to steal so many dogs I've seen. You don't see such beautiful dogs here. They all could've been show dogs.

I noticed poles in China painted with "Dogs for sale" ads. Red background and black text looking to sell puppies. Or stray dogs that they've found and trained to be given away. It was neat. Almost every place had a dog outside or at the door.

The size of the global organ trafficking industry, which primarily engages in kidney transplants, remains unknown due to its blackmarket nature. However, anecdotal evidence shows that it is clearly a multi-million dollar industry.